Mozilla Firefox is a flexible browser builder that can be supplemented with various functionality using plug-ins. Among such functionality is an express panel of visual bookmarks for quick and convenient access to selected user sites.
Mozilla Firefox has a powerful enough functionality preinstalled for working with ordinary bookmarks, including the ability to quickly add favorite sites to the browser collection, sort bookmarks by subject folders, as well as export, import and create backups. But the pre-installed visual bookmarks that open in a new browser tab leave much to be desired - the number of cells for selected sites is limited, and adding new thumbnails is possible only after removing the old ones from free cells. In this case, free cells are filled only by automatically adjusting new sites in them from the browser history.
Let's look at more effective and practical express panels of visual bookmarks for the Fire Fox in the extension store. Let's take a look at the best ones.
5 best quick visual bookmark panels for Mozilla Firefox browser
How to complete the browser with various extensions, including specifically Mozilla Firefox, is described in the article "".
Top-PageThe Top-Page extension is a cross-platform solution that will surely interest those who are constantly changing browsers or computer devices.
The Top-Page.Ru web service offers a completely free service for storing custom bookmarks in the online organization of the express panel of website thumbnails.
Once you set up the express panel and organize your favorite sites on it, you can instantly access visual bookmarks from the window of any browser, on any device - be it a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. To do this, you just need to first register with the Top-Page.Ru web service, and then log in.
The express panel of visual bookmarks Top-Page is not the best design masterpiece, far from the most advanced functional product, nevertheless, there is an opportunity to change the background image and adjust the number of thumbnails of selected sites in width.
To add a site to the visual Top-Page bookmarks, click on an empty cell with a plus sign and enter the web address. If you are too lazy to enter the name, you do not need to do it. The name will be generated automatically.
Another cross-platform option for organizing an express panel of visual bookmarks in the Mozilla Firefox browser is Atavi Bookmarks from the free Atavi.Com web service.
But these bookmarks, unlike all the other express panels presented in this review, are not installed from the Mozilla Firefox extension store, but from the Yandex Elements website.
Fast Dial is a customizable extension for Mozilla Firefox.
In its settings, the number of displayed cells of visual bookmarks on the page can be adjusted by setting any numerical value in width and length. The size of the tab cells themselves is also adjustable.
In the Fast Dial settings
you can set your own background image for the express bar of visual bookmarks. You can also choose the design of the cells, the font of the inscriptions and other subtleties of design.
To add a new visual bookmark, click an empty cell and enter the web address of the selected site. Each visual tab can choose its own logo, as well as assign hotkeys for shortcuts.
Fast Dial is one of the most beautiful express visual bookmark panels in the Mozilla Firefox extension store.
But, at the same time, it is somewhat inferior to the next participant in the review - the express panel of visual bookmarks FVD Speed Dial.
FVD Speed DialFVD Speed Dial is, perhaps, the most beautiful, most effective, most functional, most customizable express visual bookmark panel for Mozilla Firefox.
But, along with this, and the most ponderous.
The effects and functionality of the extension can slow down the browser on slow computer devices. Alas, you always have to sacrifice something.
FVD Speed Dial contains a lot of settings, thanks to which the design and organization of the express panel can be fine-tuned to suit your taste - choose a beautiful background image, customize the font of the labels, set the transparency of the buttons, specify the size of the cells, etc.
FVD Speed Dial allows you to organize visual bookmarks by thematic groups, thereby preventing cluttering of the express panel with bookmarks. In this case, a group of popular bookmarks from regularly visited sites is generated automatically. Switching between groups is very convenient, their links are neatly lined up at the top of the express panel.
To add a new visual bookmark, we traditionally click on an empty cell with a plus sign on the express panel, enter the website's website address, we can assign a group, title and picture from among the proposed ones for the bookmark.
Despite the fact that FVD Speed Dial is far from being an accomplice to the performance of Mozilla Firefox, the advantages of this express panel of visual bookmarks are obvious - beauty will save the world.
Users of low-power netbooks and old PC assemblies can, for example, abandon the cumbersome wallpaper, leaving the preset background of the express panel white so as not to burden the browser.
Hello!
This post is spontaneous. More precisely, not planned ...
I get a lot of comments on the article
I try to answer some questions right away in the comments. Sometimes I make additions right in the article. In one of these additions, I wrote that I had found a replacement for the old (new) visual Yandex bookmarks and attached another video. Such a small overview of the functions and design of the Speed Dial extension.
Sergey asked a question in the comments: “ Can I save these bookmarks somehow? I didn't understand something. "
Thank you for your question ... I answer specifically to Sergey, as well as everyone else who has not figured out sync setting bookmarks for Chrome Speed Dial.
And this is how we set visual bookmarks for Chrome Speed Dial - New Tab Page, 3D, Sync... Now we need to open the settings panel in the upper right corner, and click on the "sync" icon
After that, we are transferred to the general settings, to the synchronization tab.
Here we are offered to install another browser extension that will sync and save our bookmarks. Click "Install from Chrome Web Store"
Now we find ourselves in the Chrome store. Directly to the page with the required extension Ever Sync.
Install Ever Sync:
After installing Ever Sync, another icon appears in our browser. This is a quick access to syncing our visual bookmarks. This is how it looks:
We click on it, and we are thrown into the synchronization settings.
For Speed Dial to be saved and synchronized, we need create an account with Ever Sync.
If you have an account with Google + then everything is much simpler. You just click “Sign in with Google”. That is, go under your account.
If you do not have Google mail, then you need to go through a simple registration. Enter address his mail, come up with a password and enter a captcha.
Have you filled in everything? OK. Then click "Register"
After registration is completed, we go under our mail (which we entered during registration) and get into the menu.
The Ever Sync extension can synchronize and save not only Speed Dial bookmarks, but also standard Google Chrome browser bookmarks (favorites).
(I did not use this function and did not test it. Because, it seems, if you enable synchronization of regular bookmarks, they will be deleted from the browser. I did not understand for sure)
Let's get back to saving visual bookmarks. Go to the SpeedDial tab:
We need to click on the middle button Overwrite server data - which translates as - overwrite the server data.
Click “Upload” and copy the data from our computer to the server.
We will be asked if we are really ready to do this? We say - "Yes"
This procedure must be performed only after those cases when you will log out of your account, and then log in again. It does not automatically log out, so you often don’t have to.
When we click “Ok”, the first synchronization will take place. After 3 green check marks light up, the window will automatically close.
Everything. The initial settings are now complete.
Now you can move on to customizing and organizing our bookmarks.
SpeedDials do not sync on their own, so from time to time you need to do it yourself.
You will see three green check marks. This means that your changes have been saved on the server.
Everything, you can sleep well!
Now, if you suddenly reinstalled Google Chrome or demolished and re-installed the operating system, then simply install two Speed Dial and Ever Sync extensions.
In Ever Sync, go to your account and click “Download” on the SpeedDial tab
And all your saved sites are returned to their places.
In such a non-tricky way, the bookmarks of the Chrome Speed Dial browser are synchronized and saved.
That's all for today.
Mozilla Firefox is a powerful and convenient browser, the functionality of which can be significantly expanded through special add-ons that can be downloaded from the store built into the browser. In this article I want to tell you about the Speed Dial add-on - a convenient and functional replacement for standard visual bookmarks, which can greatly simplify the use of the browser.
The main feature of the add-on is the display of bookmarks, not just in a regular list, but in the form of thumbnail images of sites. This will allow you to visually see the list of your bookmarks and quickly go to the desired site by clicking on the site preview.
To use Speed Dial, download the add-on from the link at the end of the article. After downloading, click the "Install Now" button and restart your browser. 
Speed Dial is almost ready to go. If you previously used other visual bookmarks in the browser, then they must be disabled in the add-on settings menu.
To do this, open the Firefox menu and select the Add-ons icon. A list of installed and activated extensions will open, where you need to disable old visual bookmarks by selecting the corresponding button opposite them. Spead Dial add-on, if not activated, must be enabled.
Without leaving this page, opposite the Speed Dial, select "Settings". 
Check the boxes next to "In new empty windows" and "In new empty tabs". Click OK. 
Now open a new tab in Firefox. You will see a page of visual bookmarks, however, there are no bookmarks here yet. Let's fix this situation.
Right-click on the icon with the number 1 and select "Change group". A small window will appear in front of you, where in the "Address" column you must specify the address of the desired site. After filling in, click OK. 
Thus, fill in the required number of visual icons. 
By the way, Speed Dial has the ability to sort visual bookmarks by groups. To do this, open the Speed Dial settings again and in the "General" tab select the "Group Management" button.
Click the Add button, enter a name for the new group, set the required number of rows and columns and click OK. 
Here you can create any number of groups and sort the sites as you like. Create a group "Work", which will contain links to work sites, create a group "Purchases", where all interesting online stores will be collected, create a group "Entertainment", where a selection of entertainment sites and social networks will be created. Rely entirely on your imagination and preferences.
After that, all groups will be displayed in the Speed Dial as tabs. Open the created group and fill it with sites in the same way as we did above.
The Speed Dial is now ready for use. Enjoy your use!
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How to install Speed Dial
You can download Speed Dial for Mozilla Firefox and install the application through the settings menu of the browser itself by going to the "Add-ons" tab. Next, in the "Extensions" section in the search box, type the keywords "speed dial". In the best matching applications, Speed Dial will appear first in the list. You can get acquainted with the technical characteristics and a brief overview of this extension by clicking on the item "More". The "Install" button will download and install the program to the user's browser.
For the downloaded and installed application to take effect, you must restart your Internet browser.
Note: In the "Extensions" tab there will be a new installed Speed Dial add-on marked "Deprecated". This does not mean that the application is out of date and will not work. The thing is that the developers from the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation take into account the wishes of their fans and care about the safety of users. In new browser releases, current add-ons will be created using a new technology and called "WebExtensions". And those working in the old-fashioned way will be marked with a yellow "Obsolete" button.
How to set up Speed Dial
After installing the extension, a new icon for the Speed Dial application will not appear in the quick access bar. To start designing your browser and make your own adjustments to the application settings, you just need to open a new tab.
In the upper right corner of the open start tab for the Speed Dial settings, there is a control panel, in which there are seven icons with specific functionality:
An important point in this paragraph is the ability to manage groups of tabs. The user can create them at his discretion, breaking the saved links to sites on different topics. For example: popular, work, home, games and so on and so forth.
By clicking on the next icon, the user will have the opportunity to view links to previously opened Internet resources, as well as customize their display: by the number of links, by date. Synchronization setup. And also an important function for recovering deleted links can come in handy over time!
The third icon belongs to the function of displaying recently closed tabs, with the ability to vary the display of their number.
The next icon in the form of a circle with arrows catching up with each other is sync.
In order to use the synchronization of tab information, the user needs to install the additional application EverSync. This can be done directly from the suggested pop-up window after clicking on the sync icon.
General settings (gear icon) to personalize background, text, URL links and more. You can experiment with this application as much as you like. After all, if the user is already completely overplayed, you can always simply delete this extension and reinstall it.
The application is not bulky, it does not negatively affect the performance of the Mozilla Firefox browser, on the contrary, the systematization of the saved tabs, with the ability to save them during synchronization, greatly simplifies the work when surfing.
Bastards !!! This was the first thought after launching the Firefox browser tonight.
Of course, I heard that Firefox has been updated to a brand new version 57.0 (cool, beautiful, fast, coffee-making, wish-fulfilling, etc., etc.) which does not support extensions released before the update.
But I have automatic updates turned off. Firefox is portable. Nothing like this threatens.
That's what I thought when I launched it. And he, like that, started, and then immediately vopapa !, you have a new Firefox. Hawai, they say, and admire. And you can't roll back! But most importantly, there is no more support for my favorite Speed Dial plugin, in which I conveniently stored the sites I needed, dividing them into groups.
Remember what was written on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? It said "Don't panic".))
Fix the Speed Dial, clean !!!
I will say right away that it will not be possible to fix the Speed Dial "head-on". The last update was dated March 14, 2017. turn on, try to start, it's a dead number. We will go the other way.
So, open Firefox, follow the link and install the GroupSpeedDial extension from the Mozilla official site. In fact, this is the analogue of my favorite Speed Dial for Firefox.
Fine. An icon in the form of a blue worm has appeared in the browser at the top right. The figure is shown with the upper arrow.
Pictures are clickable!
I click on this icon, and in the menu that opens, I click the "Settings" item. If everything is done correctly, a window like the one in the picture will open.
In the left column, select the "Import / Backup" tab. In the right window I find the heading "Import of Dials from the Speed Dial by Josep del Rio Extension" and under it I click the "Import CurrentSetting.speeddial File" button.
The file selection window has opened. I enter this text in the "File name" field % APPDATA% \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ Profiles \, I press Enter and get into the Firefox profiles folder.
Profiles are folders with ".default" in their names.
In general, there is usually one such folder, but I have several of them. So you have to take turns.
So, I go into one of these folders, and I see a folder in it SDBackups... This is exactly what you need! I open it, arrange the files in it by the date of creation so that the most recent file is on top. I click this latest file.
Import completed!
Now I go to the "General" tab in the left menu, put a tick in the "Always open dialogs in a new tab" item. I press the button "Save changes".
Never forget to save !!!)))
My dials are back. I hope yours will return as well.
Did it help? We went to the Admin for tea.
UPDATE 05/05/2019: It flew off again!
The developers (probably we are talking about the developers of Firefox, but this is not certain) have gotten something again. As a result, the Speed Dial was again covered with a hairy pelvis. Yes, everything that from their point of view is "outdated" has ceased to work.
Users are offered to update the installed solutions, but it is not possible to do this (such as a server error or something like that).
If they don’t fix it in the new update, I’ll go to Googlechrome. I don’t want to do this for a number of reasons, but without Speed Dial, in my special IMHO, well, it’s Firefox to the Opera.
This lack of support for "legacy extensions" has been pissed off for a long time.
On the one hand, I understand the desire to "protect users" of the browser from the intrigues of the world's evil and require add-ons to comply with the new Firefox "high" standards. But on the other hand, without asking or warning me, they once again deprived me of a convenient chip that I myself installed. It's like a spit in the face. What are these guys going to do next time?
And here is what @mozamo writes about this on Twitter (below is my somewhat free translation of this opus into Russian).
We are very, very sorry for the continued enchanting akhtung of those features that you love and trust. We know this is frustrating and we strive to fix it as quickly as possible.
Those. THERE know about the problem, regret it and strive to fix it. It says so here.
Let's wait ...
UPDATE 05/06/2019: Fixed!
In the morning I went in and downloaded the Group Speed Dial without any problems. Apparently they fixed it.
And with you was Doctor Lexium. Until new posts.
